]]>By: Chyll Willhttp://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2011/07/30/lets-make-a-dope-deal-2/#comment-89590
Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:48:49 +0000http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=63985#comment-89590[260] Scott Proctor, except he has a well known website named after him, thus not making him generic…
]]>By: Mattpat11http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2011/07/30/lets-make-a-dope-deal-2/#comment-89589
Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:45:37 +0000http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=63985#comment-89589That seems like a silly thing to make up
]]>By: cult of basebaalhttp://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2011/07/30/lets-make-a-dope-deal-2/#comment-89588
Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:41:44 +0000http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=63985#comment-89588[260] Well, if you base what you think or believe on what all-you-can-eat Pete believes, frankly, you’ve got no excuses …

]]>By: rbjhttp://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2011/07/30/lets-make-a-dope-deal-2/#comment-89584
Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:32:18 +0000http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=63985#comment-89584Yes. 25 run day. Good night all. A very good night.
]]>By: Mattpat11http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2011/07/30/lets-make-a-dope-deal-2/#comment-89583
Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:30:35 +0000http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=63985#comment-89583[258] I said it back then and I’ll say it now. Some teams built around strikeout guys, some teams built around groundball guys. We built a bullpen around men who walked people.

I’ll never forget that when we finally rid ourselves of Jose Veras, Peter Abraham said he was surprised to see him go, because the Yankees were so proud to have found him.

If you can find a better example of “Generic right handed relief pitcher” than Jose Veras, I’d like to see it.

]]>By: Chyll Willhttp://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2011/07/30/lets-make-a-dope-deal-2/#comment-89581
Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:26:28 +0000http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=63985#comment-89581You’re right about the mid-naught bullpen, Mattpat… that was some BS…
]]>By: rbjhttp://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2011/07/30/lets-make-a-dope-deal-2/#comment-89580
Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:24:51 +0000http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=63985#comment-89580Mo damn well better not have to get up for the ninth.
]]>By: cult of basebaalhttp://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2011/07/30/lets-make-a-dope-deal-2/#comment-89579
Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:24:10 +0000http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=63985#comment-89579Failure is FAILURE!
]]>By: Mattpat11http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2011/07/30/lets-make-a-dope-deal-2/#comment-89578
Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:17:16 +0000http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=63985#comment-89578[251] That was one of the common criticisms of Colter Bean from baseball people at the time. He was horribly out of shape.

If I was 30-whatever and I even had even an inkling that my weight was why I was still in Columbus, I’d hit the fucking stairmaster

]]>By: RIYankhttp://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2011/07/30/lets-make-a-dope-deal-2/#comment-89577
Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:16:02 +0000http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=63985#comment-89577[238] You might have too good a memory on this one. It’s not 2008. Rich Harden has kind of sucked for a while. The Sox will get a couple of mediocre months out of him, and then they’ll get a mediocre draft pick when he walks and the pick will be worth less than Lars Anderson.
]]>By: cult of basebaalhttp://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2011/07/30/lets-make-a-dope-deal-2/#comment-89576
Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:15:29 +0000http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=63985#comment-89576[251] Hell, go bitch at Colon … he sure as shit never turns down an all-you-can-eat offer …
]]>By: Mattpat11http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2011/07/30/lets-make-a-dope-deal-2/#comment-89575
Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:14:40 +0000http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=63985#comment-89575[247] Chris Britton was one of those guys that Joe Torre was a stupid evil dumbshit moron for not using.

And, of course, it turns out that Britton was about 50 pounds overweight and really not any good.

]]>By: cult of basebaalhttp://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2011/07/30/lets-make-a-dope-deal-2/#comment-89574
Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:14:32 +0000http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=63985#comment-89574[247] WTF does being fat have to do with being good as a pitcher? Talk to Wells, Reuschel, Valenzuela, Rhoden, etc, etc …

As Bouton relates in “Ball Four”, you don’t run the ball to home plate …